@gaieus said:

I told you, Jax!
😉

Congrats! 👍

Guess I had to find out for myself.

Thanks my friend.

Hey Gaieus,

I think we will be able to manage that. I'll keep you posted and if i'll get back to you if we have any questions.

Would it be a geolocated model for GE?

In that case you can also upload the kmz file from the web interface.

Oooo, sounds really interesting. Would love to start. Will have to have a proper look at it.

@aerilius said:

Have you seen the kml-reference?
http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html

gx:Tour
<name>[tour name]</name>
gx:Playlist
...
gx:TourControl
gx:playModepause</gx:playMode>
</gx:TourControl>
...
</gx:Playlist>
</gx:Tour>

You can also inspect this model for more features:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e7a7633f7dc501318a124f4737362fcd

OMG I'm speechless...that ..is..AMAZING... the tour.. the self explanation...omg pure art. Words can't express how awesome it is, maybe I'm over reacting but I haven't seen anything like that before, It's beautiful, I have checked the link you send me and it's everything there but it's seems that I need knowledge in coding and programming I will study it anyway

I would really like to revive this topic if someone is interested...

(Me yes)

Hey Jax...

I have been thinking about modeling an old Depot in my birth town for a little while.
I was getting ready to contact the local Historic Preservation after doing a few google searches to see if there were any plans on the building documented anywhere. Since they are looking at restoring the building it looks as if they had as-builts done, at least partially - and they are located on the Library of Congress website. Looks like a good starting place for anyone looking for historical documents.

http://loc.gov/pictures/item/la0418/#step3

I got lucky and was linked from this website that discusses the history of the building.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/caneriver/tex.htm

Hope this helps in whatever project you are hunting down.

@jaxcoffee said:

The number 600 million were counts of unique activations of the Google Earth program. And are accurate. I believe those are global numbers.

Between home and work I have 3 computers with google earth on and each of them has had GE installed at least twice (as a result of reformating the HD) so I alone take up 6 of that 600 million. I should imagine I am far from the only one.

thanks again Gaieus.
I have actually used that plugin before so will investigate.

Mine never seem to be the exact same size so normally I just follow this go 2 school tut, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZWYtDDbSFY

Mike

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/3505/catedralsnapshot.jpg

thanks again Gaieus. You are very helpful.

When I served in the army as an artillery scout, we indeed had to take magnetic deviation (declination) into account (well, it is obviously not indifferent where you shoot with a 152 mm cannon over a 25 km distance of course).
😄
I really doubt that such a small deviation would have any serious affect on how a model is placed on GE. Also, it changes from place to place and not even only up to the geographic location relative to the geographical and magnetic North but a bunch of other things can affect it.

Is it really worth the hassle? What project do you have where it would be so important?

Hi Job,

Swapping (changing the original) terrain is not possible at the moment although there are some hints that Google would make this possible in the future so... ...currently this is the only way to go IF you need to go underthe current terrain (building something above is possible as that will cover the original one).

Hi Vicky and welcome "back"!
😉
Sorry for the "moderation queue/line" - I have now made you a member of the SU Team (with some extra powers!) and you posts should not be held back any more.
😉

Paul, you might have a look at Sorenson Squeeze. Here is a review, http://sorenson-squeeze-mac.en.softonic.com/mac

Its pricey at $799 but maybe the Trial version might be useful. http://www.sorensonmedia.com/video-encoding/

Mike

Unfortunately only geometry can be exported to GE which means that yes, only3D Text if you want text.

@gaieus said:

Why not use a "generic" colour that is similar to the façade? If you colour some face, the Google folks may still not like it so when a colour is applied on a face, divide that face, right click on one half and "make unique". Now SU will create a raster image from the colour. Next step is to select both halves and "combine textures" (and delete dividing edge).

Very nice tip, Gai, thank you. Still need to buy you that beer! 👍

Hi Lee,

There is a "Get nearby models" in the latest version however that will not nake any difference between recently uploaded models and the ones that have been there for ages:
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=116820

@cosycat said:

Have a look at Google fusion tables
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tables.html

which does something similar for Gmaps

Interesting link, thanks, but don't think you can customise the actual areas can you? They have to be single points as far as I can see?